The cookbook for this month is Big Vegan Flavor, 2024, by Nisha Vora
If you are curious about vegan cooking, this club is for you! Each month, participants make three recipes from popular cookbooks then share their reflections with the group. Novice to expert cooks are welcome, as are interested non-cooks.
This month is our quarterly in-person discussion and potluck! You also have the option to attend online, as usual. Registration for the online meeting is not required—get log-in information below. If you are able to attend in person —great! Bring a vegan dish to share. It can be one of the recipes from this month’s discussion, past VRC recipes or just your favorite vegan dish.
About
From the Publisher:
“2025 James Beard Foundation Award Nominee, Named a Best Cookbook of 2024 by NPR, VegNews, and The Portland Press Herald. A groundbreaking and comprehensive “vegan flavor bible”–with 150 must-make recipes–from the wildly popular home cook and creator behind Rainbow Plant Life. With more than two million devoted fans online, Nisha Vora has become the trusted source for exceptional vegan recipes for the home cook. That’s because of her “flavor first” philosophy. It’s an approach she’s honed nearly a decade creating plant-based dishes that just plain taste amazing, labels aside. Now she’s created an essential, comprehensive guide that codifies the principles of plant-based cooking for the first time, from how to coax the most out of your ingredients and how to understand essential flavor pairings, to how to achieve impossible-to-resist, must-have-more textures and embrace the myriad ways vegetables can be enjoyed: roasted, caramelized, braised, pampered in bold marinades and umami-rich sauces, and so much more.”
This month’s featured recipes
In the recipe club this month we will discuss these recipes:
- Malaysian Curry Noodle Soup – pg 468 – 471
- Tofu 65 – pg 477 – 479
- Mushroom Carnitas Tacos – pg 540-541
optional:
- Avocado Creama – pg 41 – 42
- Fermented Cashew Cheese – pg 210 – 212
- Chocolate-Covered Dates with Pistachio Butter – pg 574
Vegan Recipe Club General Details
The Vegan Recipe Club is for everyone—those curious about vegan cooking and those more experienced with it. The club explores plant-based recipes created by cooks of varying cultures and nationalities and cookbooks are suitable for the novice to experienced cook.
This club aims to feature recipes that are great tasting and support the health of participants. It’s a chance to build community with others interested in vegan cooking. Best of all, these meals also help the animals and the environment!
How does it work?
In the month prior to the Vegan Recipe Club meeting, you can download the recipes for free from the top of this page. Try making one or more of the recipes then come to share and discuss what you thought about them with the group.
The group is facilitated by volunteer Henry Patterson of Compassionate Action for Animals (CAA). If you have questions about the recipes or the Vegan Recipe Club between meetings, email info@exploreveg.org.
Join us online!
The club meets monthly on the third Tuesday of each month at 6:30 pm. Meetings are held via Zoom — see details below. Several times a year we host an in-person potluck in conjunction with the meeting. It will be in our new CAA office space which is in Ste. 108 at 34 13th Ave. NE, Minneapolis, 55113. Keep your eye posted to the event page for more information.
Join Zoom Meeting, with passcode 467109
Or use the dial-in information: Meeting ID: 815 7424 7392 Passcode: 467109 Dial by your location: +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 929 205 6099 US (New York) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)
